I had a dream about bloated ticks last night. Tossed the little buggers into the fireplace.

6:23am
Marley Dogg:

Morning Clay and everyone - thanks again for the pixie dust and good thoughts. My dog Marley is doing much better today. This is what he looks like: https://instagram.com/p/Bfir-kwhn58En76YAAgv8_wzPF3vFcXPhwGTqU0/

That Johnny Appleseed was really on to something.
With all the pectin he consumed, he might not have planted all those apple trees...
He probably crapped them seeds out all offer the place. Just saying....

7:01am
Daybreak the Teacher.:

My brother and sister-in-law inherited a pinewood derby track from the Boy Scouts so every other year the adults and kids design our own cars and race

Good morning Clay and glisteners. This morning starts with mixed news for me. On the one hand, today I become a first time homeowner, but on the other I've learned that a friend of mine is dying. After an unprecedented third double lung transplant his body is rejecting again. There's nothing more to be done. There will be no fourth transplant. I can't help but feel a bit of loss on what should be a happy day.

7:10am
Spoons:

Clay you make my overnights in Anchorage much more entertaining. Thank you.

N.A.R.D. I am so sorry. My best friend died of liver failure last June. I know that feeling of powerlessness. So very sad. I hope you get to spend some time with your friend. Blessings to him for comfort and peace during his journey.

Wooha, you think with all the weed I smoke I could be like a Johnny Potseed?
Poop trains have a lot of fertilizer. Wohwa another great idea. Man I’m like a genie today.
Thanks Radio Dude, you inspire me!

@noel my neighbor looks like a young Kenny Loggins... I have a Kenny rogers album but I've never listened to it because it doesn't have any songs about Bigfoot... @simon I have to be in the mood... I think a lot of people use it to get amped up and woke up in the morning... or work out. My brother loves them and is an exercise freak as is/does my sister in law... not to stereotype

That WAS a good song. WOWZA. And now Motörhead?! I love wake and bake..

7:34am
Daybreak the Teacher.:

Made it was in a quarter-mile of the driveway to my school and the road was totally blocked by trees. And of course I missed all of the texts from my house for college because I was driving, so now I’m making my way back around almost there. Fortunately apparently my school is very understanding. Good luck to all the Glisten on the road

7:35am
Marley Dogg:

So sorry N.A.R.D. - same thing happened to a friend of mine last year - it’s not fair

that's a pretty nice auditory illusion. "Laurel" is in the lower frequencies and "Yanni" in the higher - it's as if one is a tessellated acoustic reflection of the another. i don't know which is the "original" though!

7:47am
Readie Righteous:

Apparently, The sounds that make up Yanny in the audio clip exist somewhere near that 20kHz mark. The people who hear it have more sensitive hearing in those far upper ranges than the people who hear Laurel

I bet my wife would hear Laurel. We play a "name that tune" game in bars and restaurants and I always complain that I can't hear the same part of the songs as her. I only pick up the higher tones and baseline when it's a crowded room.

Thanks Joe Popp. Good article. I’m still not sure I agree with it fully, or maybe it’s just slightly confusing. I’ve studied sense and perception. I’ve also studied basic developmental psych, which includes some linguistics.
I have a higher voice and should be more sensitive to higher sounds, which disagrees with what everyone else is saying. But I also learned to speak in San Diego county, so my ears got used to the phonemes around me and lost the ones that weren’t.

It’s funny I think we can train our eyes to see more. I think I saw the dress as blue and gold because I dissected the true colors of the photo without adding perception to change and adjust the image to what the dress truly was (blue and black). Like when I studied Impressionism through Expressionism and learned to see how someone’s face could be green.

(debug info) I tried to post my 8:11 comment on the active playlist, but hitting post sent me to a playlist that looked inactive (no sidebar). Typing it again worked, as did whatever restart was done (firefox 60.0, windows 10)

But even after studying sound in music and choirs, I cannot retrain my brain to hear words differently. That’s so much more fixed, probably because we have less brainpower assigned to sound sensation and perception.
And then language, beyond just sound, is even more limited.
Before 2, we can hear and distinguish all phonemes. After 2, we lose the synapses for phonemes not used around us. We literally cannot sense or perceive the difference in certain sounds that aren’t used around us.

Hmm, I had to log out, log back in, move to the home page then back to the playlist for it to display new comments, including mine from 8:20. Refreshing didn't work

8:26am
Karen:

We learned to say “day today today today...” to match the rhythm of the Nutcracker. But even hearing that my band director and those in the NJ school band say, “taday”, I was saying it wrong and making the rhythm wrong. It took a long time, but we finally found if I said, “ day Ted A Ted A...” it worked.

Thanks, Linda Lee. It's been a bit of a weird morning. I'm not sure how to feel. They're not even sure how long he has because organ rejection doesn't have a real progression timeline like cancer would. He might have a few weeks, he could have a few more years. It's all very heavy and unreal.

Good Morning Clay! My brother, Darren, was the Drummer for Dressy Bessy. Rob Greene, also a dear friend, was the bass player. Rob passed away this January and we are deeply saddened by this loss. How about a bit of Dressy for Rob?

@N.A.R.D: sorry to hear about your friend, but happy about you new home. Try to handle both, if you don't know how to feel, it's because you're actually feeling contradictory things and not just being in control. That probably makes you a good friend

Might I humbly request a Clay Pidgeon original tune every now and again....:)

8:43am
Clay:

Fan Girl Out! Ha! When you see the human fossil I am, you will wonder what happened to that 10-years younger me on screen!

8:44am
Karen:

I’m always down for some primus.

8:44am
Clay:

Today I had a BIG technical gaffe that caused mucho grief as iun, No Word of the Week, No new Evan Funk Davies segment, No Hazmat background. So you were stuck hearing more music than ever. It must have been awful!!!!